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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Mary describe her mother?
2. What markings are on the object found under the skeleton?
3. Who does Lady Baskerville have an argument with in Chapter 11?
4. Who does Amelia recommend be invited to stay at Baskerville House?
5. What does Lady Baskerville serve to her house guests in Chapter 16?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Amelia apprehend the figure in white?
2. What do Lady Baskerville and Mary argue about in Chapter 11? How does Emerson solve the argument?
3. What is Madame Berengeria's reaction to Emerson's performance?
4. What does Lady Baskerville serve to her guests in Chapter 16? What turns out to be significant about this service?
5. What does Mary tell Amelia and Emerson when they arrive at Baskerville House in Chapter 13?
6. What does Emerson find when he knocks through the tomb wall painted with a portrait of Anubis?
7. What does Amelia make a chart of in Chapter 15?
8. What do Emerson and Amelia discover about the pendant found in the tomb?
9. How does Amelia prepare to go to the tomb in Chapter 16?
10. What does Amelia tell Mary was Madame Berengeria's cause of death? What does Amelia actually believe?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is a parody? What makes "The Curse of the Pharaohs" a parody? What is the novel a parody of?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the motif of suspicion in the novel, "The Curse of the Pharaohs". Who is suspicious of whom, and why? Who is Amelia suspicious of? Why does she feel this way? As the reader, who behaves suspiciously in the novel? Why do they behave this way? How do the characters' suspicions of others affect their behavior?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and interpret the woman in white. How does her existence affect the other characters? What do they think the woman in white is? How does her appearances affect the tone of the novel? Who does the woman in white end up being? Why does this character create the woman in white?
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